This is an Ardour 5 tutorial to show how to do Automation and Sends in Ardour 5. This is the technique to add plugin effects to only a small portion of a track rather than the whole thing. This is a supplement to the tutorial for Ardour 3 which excludes the drawing tool which is new to Ardour 5. http://brunoruviaro.github.io/ardour3-floss-tutorial/page6/ Some mistakes are listed below.. Some of the work Ardour work can be seen on this channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtCoUJXm0dAxEChyuYtDKuA Work in Process that uses this technique can be seen here. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8Uv4wlWLt9rOFliTmJOcElNOXM Review from Ardour Team. on IRC channel -headwar- hi bhikkhusubhuti, thats IMHO a good way to make it. watch out, in the video you say the send fader is how intense the effect applies. No ! Its a real fader, controlling the amount sent to the FX bus. The amount of effect is 100%, but the level of the send affects how much of the signal is routed from your track to your bus, hence how the fx on the bus applies -oofus- bhikkhusubhuti: General points. in your channel you should have your aux send moved to post fader not pre, and in the delay bus you should have the delay plugin before the fader. -Headwar- bhikkhusubhuti: to ass on oofus' comment, I'd not choose \"strict I/O\" for the track, to allow the stereo effect to render their results in stereo -oofus- or use a stereo bus as the aux send from the mono track will add a panner which follows the channel panner for position, then if you pan the channel left or right the delay should follow which is far more natural